Within the framework of White Nights, the VKontakte social network officially announced the Direct Games HTML5 gaming platform and talked about its work.

The online accelerator FunCubator has started collecting applications from teams involved in the development of entertainment applications. HTML5 game authors will also be able to receive investments.

The Instant Games gaming platform is coming out of beta. Facebook has announced the expansion of its audience and the launch of new functionality.

Japanese developer Rakuten Games has launched the social gaming platform R Games, using HTML5 features.

Emily Greer, co-founder and CEO of the Kongregate gaming portal, posted on Twitter a graph of the use of various browser game engines.

Estimated at $18 billion, the Snapchat messenger is trying out game formats. For Christmas, the developers have introduced a new filter that allows the user to play for himself in a dwarf costume.

HTML5 developers interested in creating games for the new Facebook platform will be able to get money for it from Big Viking Games.

The Facebook social network has opened the Instant Games platform within the closed beta, which allows users to play with each other in a chat and news feed.

Beijing-based game studio Wozlla has received $2 million from Greenwoods Asset Management to develop its HTML5 technology.

Strategy Analytics has published the results of a survey of 1,600 mobile app developers. More than 32% of respondents intend to support Windows Phone in 2014, which is 2 times higher than this year.

News for those who feel sorry for the money for Unity and Marmalade, but do not feel sorry for their own time for experiments. The British company Turbulenz has made its HTML5 engine open. 

The start of sales of preview devices running on the Firefox OS platform turned out to be impressive. GeeksPhone sold out the first batch of smartphones in a few hours.

Ludei has announced that its HTML5 platform of the same name now supports 3D. 

Game Closure has released its own toolkit that allows you to develop Javascript applications that are not inferior in performance to native programs.

The results of a study conducted by Kendo UI, a company specializing in JavaScript and HTML5 development services, indicate that developers’ interest in HTML5 is only growing.

Alexander Gorodenchuk, head of TrueToken studio, who recently introduced the Squire framework, told us about the advantages of the HTML5 platform and its nuances.

The introduction of HTML5 support is aimed at the eastern, not the Western market, GREE Japan employees told our colleagues from PocketGamer.

Yesterday, Gree introduced an open source tool that allows you to develop Unity and HTML5 applications with Flash content.